Here’s another twelve minutes of raw camcorder footage from Evolution 2002. It starts off with over four minutes of Chikyuu’s T.Hawk beating down Guile in Super Turbo. It only gets more serious from there, with Shirts himself facing off against Chikyuu.
highlights:
bootleg teleport mindgames at 5:15, cameraman Mike Watson coaching at 6:18, Dhalsim style exhibition at 8:12, grimy corner trap at 8:25, and random cameos at the end
There’s a new spotlight/strategy article posted on Sonic Hurricane reflecting upon a classic Domination 101 essay written by none other than Seth Killian. Here’s a brief preview quote:
AaaA: s-kill’s Tournament Player Archetypes on Sonic Hurricane
However, the overall level of competition among the Street Fighter “middle class” has improved considerably over the years – partly due to fighting games becoming a niche hobby inbetween periods of mainstream success.
Even players who lose in qualifiers at Evo events are pretty well rounded now. It’s become more difficult to encapsulate everyone within s-kill’s original archetypes: the Scrub, the Turtle, Gimmicky Pete, the Stylist, and Grumpy Old Man.
Continuing the K-6 archival, here we have rKf’s second Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike combovid. (Any guesses as to what K-6 means? Maybe i should ask him.)
highlights:
SF3:3S Urien c.LK xx Chariot Tackle xx Jupiter Thunder juggle at 0:18, Urien dashing charge partitioned s.MP xx Chariot Tackle at 0:27, Urien meaty fireball setup at 3:20, Urien midscreen crossunder Chariot Tackle at 3:52, and Urien Chariot Tackle x5 at 4:31
I had to get around to this sooner or later, right? The Super Street Fighter IV finals at Evo2k10 ended with a string of high-pressure matches, mainly due to Ricky’s character choice of Rufus.
players: Daigo Umehara (Ryu-U1) vs Ricky Ortiz (Rufus-U2)
observations:
The entire second round from 0:50 onward is amazing on Daigo’s part. Check out how he sets up that crossup air Hurricane Kick. You know that’s exactly what he was planning when took that small step backward at 0:56, and even before then when he started throwing fireballs. This is exactly why jumping is dangerous. Rufus’ air time gives Ryu the opportunity to set up the crossup. And then check out how quickly Daigo rebuilds meter after the super. His gameplan is just ridiculously fundamentally solid.
Shirts continues to upload camcorder footage from Evolution 2002, the last arcade-exclusive Evo-series tournament before the switch to consoles. This one is considerably longer than the first, but with fewer cameo appearances and more Super Turbo matches.
highlights:
young man Dogface telling a double War Machine story at 3:32, RekkaKen vs Jumpsuit at 3:31, Viscant sighting at 7:03, Kuni’s Zangief owning fools at 7:15, and Shirts’ O.Dhalsim at 9:20
This is the first of five Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike videos created by rKf over several years. He uploaded them all to his u2b channel today, so i’ll feature one of them each day. If there’s enough interest, it may even encourage him to put together a sixth video for our enjoyment.
highlights:
SF3:3S Urien non-knockdown Knee Drop at 0:15, Urien tauntfest juggle at 0:37, Urien 50% damage Taunt at 1:13, and Urien double Messatsu Gou Hadou at 1:52
Today we’ll discuss some selected hitboxes from the Street Fighter Alpha series. To see these in action, follow the same procedure as last time, only instead of the SF2 script, download and run the CPS-2 script.
SFA1 Hurricane Kicks hit both in front and behind, as they did in SF2. In SFA2, the air Tatsus of the Shotos lost the ability to hit behind, and by SFA3 all Hurricane Kicks (Shotos, Guy and Sakura) could only hit on the front swings. Continue reading
Old man Dhalsim player Shirts sent in this camcorder footage from Evolution 2002 featuring some of the community’s most famous players in their youth, talking into a camera.
highlights:
young man Viscant modeling fancy pants at 0:25, the Cannon brothers running the show from 0:52 to 3:10, ghetto 360° view at 1:51 (Gief 360, not true 360), young man Arturo mumbling something shady at 2:28, and young man NKI recounting the Black Bracket of Death at 2:51
Apparently the PAL Sega Saturn version of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 has more lenient air reel times, allowing for some ridiculous juggle combos that are impossible in other versions. Needless to say, everyone dies a gruesome bouncy death in this new combovid.
highlights:
UMK3 Liu Kang fireball assortment at 1:18, Kano shaking fools to death at 1:25, Kerri Hoskins upkicking robots at 1:57, and Nightwolf busting out the axe thirteen times at 3:23
